Best Western PLUS Inn of SedonaSedona’s First Friday Gallery Tour – May 2nd, 2014Jerome Art Walk – May 3rd, 2014

Visit Sedona, Arizona this weekend and enjoy the creations of talented artists at Sedona’s First Friday Gallery Tour taking place tonight, May 2nd, and then on Saturday, May 3rd, head up Cleopatra hill for the Jerome Art Walk!

Below you will find a few of the exhibits and receptions taking place during the First Friday Gallery Tour, to see a full listing of participating galleries please visit the Sedona Gallery Association on Facebook. For your convenience, the Sedona Trolley provides free transportation to venture from art gallery to art gallery. If you are staying at the Best Western PLUS Inn of Sedona, we also offer our guest free shuttle service to uptown Sedona and the Tlaquepaque Arts and Craft Village. All of the exhibits and artist receptions for 1st Friday run from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

Sedona’s 1st Friday Evening in the Galleries Exhibits

Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts VillageRowe Fine Art Gallery is Wild At HeartRowe Fine Art Gallery presents Wild at Heart, an art show and fundraiser for the Southwestern Wildlife Conservation Center Come meet animal ambassadors like Sage the bobcat and donate to win one of four original clay sketches by wildlife sculptor Ken Rowe. . When Ken needs to stay close to home, he finds inspiration for his next bronze sculpture by visiting wildlife sanctuaries such as Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale. For more information on this Sedona event please visit Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village.

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Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts VillageAt Work and at Play in the West at Mountain Trails GalleriesAt Work and at Play in the West opens at Mountain Trails Galleries in beautiful Tlaquepaque on First Friday and features a selection of the gallery’s stellar roster of artists who depict the West that they know best. The art work highlights historic and present day activities of ranchers, working cowboys and cowgirls, animals, and children…For more information on this Sedona event please visit Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village.

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Turquoise Tortoise GalleryTony Abeyta: New WorksThis much-anticipated exhibition introduces exciting new avenues from one of the most eagerly collected Contemporary Native American painters working today. While Abeyta’s landscapes, full of slashes of rain or jagged mountains, brush and water, or full blue skies, have been of recent focus, the artist has turned his eye to Sedona itself, producing a wholly new look of landscape.For more information please visit the Turquoise Tortoise Gallery.

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Lanning GallerySculpted Nature: The Art of Hans Schiebold & Robert CherryProminent artists are the focus in May as Lanning Gallery opens its newest exhibition with both Hans Schiebold and Robert Cherry travelling to Arizona for the exhibition’s opening reception. Hans Schiebold’s vision and the singular technique used to create his sculptural landscape paintings of heightened realism have secured him a listing in the “Who’s Who in American Art. Robert Cherry describes his artistic path as working with wood while also producing something different and new. To that end he succeeds with every vessel he creates. Cherry uses only downed pine and selects his “blanks” for their character, their natural defects, splits and cracks. For more information on this Sedona event please visit the Lanning Gallery.

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Jerome Art WalkArizona’s Art DestinationMay 3rd, 2014The monthly tradition of Jerome First Saturday Art Walk has taken root and will blossom once again this spring with new artists and studios as well as Jerome’s exciting and well-known galleries. . Every first Saturday, the creative community of Jerome is pleased to host an evening of art, music and entertainment with open studios and galleries displaying local, regional and national artistic treasures. A free shuttle runs throughout the town during the event. For more information please visit the Jerome Art Walk.

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Best Western PLUS Inn of SedonaComplimentary “About Town” Sedona Shuttle ServiceDid you know that the Best Western PLUS Inn of Sedona offers a Complimentary “About Town” Sedona Shuttle Service? That’s right, if you are a guest of our Sedona hotel we’ll do the driving for you. We’ll take you anywhere within Sedona proper in our 12 passenger air conditioned van, then just call us and we’ll come back and pick you up! This free shuttle service is available to all of our guests from 8:00 am until last pick up at 9:45 pm.